Amen. Amen. Good morning. Welcome. You can be seated. So glad you're here. Those of you online, we're so glad that you're joining us.

Before we get started, I want to mention two things that I had already announced Tuesday at our prayer meeting.

And then again on Thursday, that our our Bible study the first of which is that

we would cover your prayers for my wife Kelly who has been battling breast cancer I

hope you know this about us if you don't you need to know this about us we If you don't, you need to know this about us. We're not seeking pity,

only prayer. We've known about it for several months, but now it is spreading into the lymph nodes.

We didn't go public with this back in the summer because we didn't want any unnecessary attention.

My amazing wife, for those of you who know her, she's amazing.

For those of you who don't know her, she's amazing.

But she's also very private.

And just amazingly quite, wait, what? You guys laughed

too quick on that one. But she, keep in mind, we've been married for 35 years, we've recorded for two, we've been together for 37 years.

She's my soulmate, right?

And she's the one that has really just encouraged me and reminded me that I'm to keep my hands to the plow and preach the word as I'm so privileged to and this is church which is what

I've done since we receive the diagnosis so the second thing is I am going to take some time off

starting tomorrow and I will return Lord willing and if we're still here

which by the looks of things this could be the last supper I don't know but I'll

return Tuesday January 9th which by the, will be our next prayer meeting,

not Tuesday, January 2nd, because we're not going to have it the day after New Year's Day.

So on Tuesday, January 9th, I'll return to the pulpit.

If we're still here, that'll be our next prayer meeting, and then I'll be back in the

pulpit from that time on, and we will resume our expositional teaching. In the meantime, I'm

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